Winner, NACCS-Tejas booklet Award, nationwide organization for Chicana and Chicano stories Tejas Foco , 2011NACCS booklet Award, nationwide organization for Chicana and Chicano experiences, 2012In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, used to be a segregated urban ruled via an entrenched Anglo social and company elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south aspects have been characterised by means of substandard housing and skilled seasonal flooding.

Illuminating the advanced heritage of the fight among the Zunghar Mongols and China over Tibet and the increase of Sichuan's value as a key strategic sector in the course of China's final dynasty, Yingcong Dai explores the intersections of political and social historical past. --Yingcong Dai is affiliate professor of historical past at William Paterson college in New Jersey.

On July 20, 1944, Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg used to be done within the courtyard of the 3rd Reich's army headquarters in Berlin for trying to assassinate Adolf Hitler. A member of the unsuccessful plot to overthrow the Nazi executive -- codenamed Operation Valkyrie -- Stauffenberg used to be shot by means of a firing squad with his co-conspirators, and their our bodies have been dumped in a shallow grave.

L. A. 1. Karpezo's 4th and 15th Mechanized Corps did the same for Muzychenko's 6th Army. D. l. Riabyshev's 8th Mechanized Corps backed up Ponedelin's 12th Army. V Feklenko's and VI. F. S. Konev's 16th and 19th Armies. Lukin's and Konev's armies, however, were still deploying forward to the Dnepr river line on 22 June as part of the Stavka Reserve. Early on 22 June, the leading divisions of Kleist's First Panzer Group lunged eastward across the Western Bug river into and through the forward positions of 48 THE BORDER BATTLES, 22 JUNE - 9 JULY Clockwise from top left: WESTERN FRONT 52.

German panzers on the attack. 38 THE BORDER BATTLES, 22 JUNE - 9 JULY 32. German infantry assault. G. Pavlov's Western Special Military District, which became the Western Front the moment war began, was deployed in single echelon with three armies forward and the field headquarters of Lieutenant-General PM. Filatov's 13th Army far to the rear. D. G. Khatskilevich's and PN. Akhliustin's powerful 6th and the virtually tank-less 13th Mechanized Corps defended the apex of the Belostok salient. A. I.